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Title: Launching a Rocket INTO the MOON!!! Post by: CaptainHappy on October 08, 2009, 04:56:27 AM I saw this story on the news, and knew that some of our members are into astronomy, so I thought I would ask if they were going to try and watch???
(Yes this is a total lead in to STATFREAK, as I know he has a bazooka cannon telescope!!! :97- :97- :97- ) :31- , Are you gonna drag the big lens out to the desert to watch? :103- Just curious on my part, nothing more than that. CH :95- Title: Re: Launching a Rocket INTO the MOON!!! Post by: StatFreak on October 08, 2009, 06:09:35 AM That's quite the bottle rocket, eh? Yes, I'm going to drag out the scope, but only as far as my backyard. I won't need to get to the dark skies of the open desert to see the surface of the moon, and it will be close to overhead at the time of impact. :79-
Title: Re: Launching a Rocket INTO the MOON!!! Post by: brichter on October 08, 2009, 01:56:20 PM Yup, should be good viewing from here also.
Title: Re: Launching a Rocket INTO the MOON!!! Post by: CaptainHappy on October 08, 2009, 06:22:20 PM I don't have your guys' toys, so I am going to watch it on the news! :37-
I hope that it is not like the recent TV Movie with David James Elliot of JAG, where the moon breaks in half or something like that! :60- :60- Does anyone think we will hear the "Man In The Moon" yelp in pain at the time of impact???? :97- :97- :97- CH :95- Title: Re: Launching a Rocket INTO the MOON!!! Post by: StatFreak on October 09, 2009, 12:29:09 PM ...Does anyone think we will hear the "Man In The Moon" yelp in pain at the time of impact???? :97- :97- :97- CH :95- No, we won't hear any yelps: he's a moon's moon. :14- He's had far larger impacts from big fat rocks thrown at him from the bleachers over the eons. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that I saw it in my scope. :8- :8- I had printed pictures of the moon's surface showing the point of impact in a mirror image and upside-down (well, I only had to turn the sheet around after printing the mirror image :96-) in order to match the view through the scope and zero in on the correct location. I only have an 8" scope but it's an LX-200 and the mount is rock solid, so I was able to use a 6.4mm eyepiece, which gave me 312.5x magnification and a sharp, steady image. I have confirmed that I had the correct spot in my sights, and I thought that I saw some small reflections, but I'm not sure. At least I got to look at some very nice open clusters with my 20mm and 31mm Naglers earlier in the evening. :89- Title: Re: Launching a Rocket INTO the MOON!!! Post by: brichter on October 09, 2009, 11:42:34 PM I put both 8" scopes out before I went to bed and set the CCD imager up on one, and set my alarm for 4:15 am. :39-
Got up and went outside, drew a bead on the impact site and waited. Saw a small flash right as my WWV-set clock hit the right time, no plume like they said we'd be able to see. :37- Went back to bed, no pictures. :60- :149- Title: Re: Launching a Rocket INTO the MOON!!! Post by: CaptainHappy on October 09, 2009, 11:55:25 PM Even the pictures that they put out were pretty boring... The only thing that looked really good was their pre event animation that they put out to hype the event! I hope that did not cost as much as the actual mission??? :30- :30- :30-
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